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• His greatest invention becomes his greatest mistake. Iron Man must act fast…and Tony Stark must build faster! The lethal techno virus Extremis is out in the wild and out for grabs to the highest bidder!

• It’s up to Tony Stark to contain it and that means creating a new suit of armor…NOW!

Fair enough. I usually agree with you on this issue, but I occasionally make an exception. I actually have never read a book with Greg Land art, so I don’t have the hatred for him a lot of people seem to have. This will be my first exposure to his work.

Land traces, that makes him not a good artist, but it doesn’t make his art ugly. I don’t get how people can have such a visceral reaction to his stuff. It looks like generic comic book art to me. It doesn’t make me want to run out and buy other stuff by the artist but it doesn’t take me out of the story either. The art has to be way way uglier to make me not like a book despite the author, Captain Marvel ugly.

I think his work becomes uglier when you know he has, or may have traced it.

You are right it is fairly generic, but it can also be very static and boring. I always feel like, if you are going to trace, at least do it well, from good source material. Not pornos and stock images. I feel like I have seen so many images of his where he has traced a generic picture of a smiling face, for a panel which has that face talking. It’s jarring and is just poor story telling.

So anyway, even if you pretend his artwork is all originated in his own head, or at least modified from a relevant source, it looks crap. When you know it could be copied, it then becomes the cheapest most shitty piece of non-art, that you just paid good money for.

I would like to check out Gillen on Ironman, but I refuse to touch any book with Greg Land. As said above, Marvel will continue to give him work until people stop buying, so I have stopped.

Gets my blood boiling as I have always followed Gillen’s work from Phonogram to JiM. But having picked up Uncanny X-men #6 with knocked out porno face storm and Betsy I decided to give anything by Land a miss. Gutted to miss out on Ironman written by Gillen but until they change the artist I won’t pick it up, I wouldn’t even read it if someone bought it for me, you couldn’t even pay me to look at it.

Iron Man is my favorite super hero and I have been reading his comic for thirty years, so I am definitely on board for this one. This team is following one of the best Iron Man runs of all time, so I am very interested to see how they try to follow that act.

I’ve never hated on Land as much as a lot of the people on iFanboy. ‘Hated’ may not be the best term, enjoying a person’s art is a fairly subjective thing, but you get what I mean. That said, I have to say that I liked the preview art I saw. The armor is looking pretty sweet. I could never get into Larocca on Iron Man before despite wanting to read an Iron Man title, so I have some hopes for this book. I think I can get past the Land art if the story is even remotely interesting where I didn’t much care for the storyline or the art in the old book.

I’m curious to give this a try, but double shipping at $3.99 pretty much kills it for me, unless I read outstanding things about it. Oh well, frees up money for giving Shadowman a try this week instead . . .

I already spend a budget of about 40 dollars a month on comics, so double shipping may hurt considering all the new titles coming out I want to try…but, then again, I can just cut back on the occasional TPB splurge I suppose.

Really solid first issue, it’s mostly set up, but I’m now very excited for what it’s setting up. Kieron Gillen is an amazing writer, more than worth dealing with the average art for Gillen’s writing. I think has a good handle on Stark’s voice early on. And as much as I don’t like Land, or the way he draws people, he draws a pretty good Iron Man.

BTW, I noticed the cover and interior page quality is better on this and Deadpool than on a standard Marvel book. Anyone know if this is just for the first issues or will it continue for all NOW books?

Gave this a shot. It was ok. I haven’t been reading Iron Man and I wasn’t lost at all. I forgot it was Land who is so notorious for tracing but I still thought the art was on the good not great end of the generic comic art spectrum. I’ll give this series another shot because I thought it was all a good enough use of my time. Good enough doesn’t stay on my pull list long, though.

I open the book and see the first two pages when Tony is in the armor and I thought to myself, I’m loving this. I’ve read the complains about Land, but I thought if he draws like that, there is no problem…Well, then I turned the page and it showed Tony out of the armor, and his face looked fucking weird. After reading Fraction and Larroca’s run for so long, I grew accustomed to the characters and how they looked. Pepper Potts did not like Pepper Potts.

The story was okay, if not a little boring. I do like the way Land draws the women, but what the fuck’s up with all the constant smiling? Besides the way Tony and Pepper look, I did not mind the art, for the most part. However, when you do not like the way the protagonist of a series looks or the second most important character…well, needless to say that’s a problem.

After reading Iron Man for a little more than 4 years…I think it’s time to take a break for a little while.

Ok so I love Iron Man, I sometimes enjoy Kieron Gillen, and I dislike Greg Land. This was a last minute digital purchase for me. The good is that it’s very accessible, the writing is pretty good, characters seem to be on the mark for the most part, and story was alright. The art is well…..not the worst greg land I’ve seen, that said however is like saying well that’s not the worst time I was kicked in the nuts. Overall 3/5. Not bad but won’t be back for issue 2.

As someone who has never really read an Iron Man comic, I liked it. Now the art was good in spots and awful in others however I loved the story. I don’t know if I will keep reading it or not if the other NOW titles I’m going to try are as good or better story wise this will get the axe.

I’ve only looked at the previews, won’t be picking this up because of the art. To me the panels of Tony in the suit look as if Land traced screen shots from the iron man and avengers movies. The women look like models traced and Tony looks like he had a botched facelift and spray on tan.

I literally could not finish this. The V for Vendetta faces on every male character was beyond disturbing. I didn’t know what the Greg Land hate was all about, but a few pages was all it took for me to figure it out. The first bad panel was when Iron Man was above the city with the sky setting. That was a blatant photo that was colored over. I thought, “Ok. I can live with that because it looks cool.” The faces were just way too much for me to stomach though. I rarely, if ever give 1/5. They are reserved for books that I couldn’t finish. After 4 legitimate tries, I gave up. And I feel like a dummy for trying it. That’s the last spur of the moment Marvel Now book I’ll be buying.

First off getting through this book was like pulling teeth for me, I just wanted to stop after each page. Secondly, What the hell is the point and changing “shell heads” classic colors, seemed unnecessary. But then again, most of this Marvel NOW seems unnecessary.